Monday 12 January 2009

Great new self-healing therapy!
But must we have ANOTHER pill?

This week British scientists made a very interesting announcement about a possible way to enhance the human body’s ability to repair itself. The technique being studied triggers the body to release 100 times more stem cells to treat whatever and wherever needs healing.

Until now, any treatments to increase the number of stem cells in the body involved serious, painful and risky operations to transfer bone marrow from a donor to a recipient. However, down the road such transfers could be a thing of the past.

Instead, scientists have managed to give mice a potent combination of drugs that causes the body to produce more stem cells within the bone marrow, which then releases the cells en masse to flood the appropriate area of injury or damage.

Will this treatment work in humans? Well, according to the theory, it should – although the researchers involved admit that it’s at least 10 years away from being proved fully safe and sufficiently effective.

The primary applications for this treatment would be patients who have had heart attacks to enhance the regeneration of muscular tissue around the heart as well as patients who could benefit from the speedier mending of broken bones.

I applaud this kind of work. Instead of invasive surgery, the therapy of choice will be to rely on the patient’s body to repair itself – more or less – through its own natural process of producing healing cells.

But there’s still something about this that nags at me a bit.

This treatment as radical as it seems will still involve a “combination of drugs”. These drugs are, in the scientists’ words, “powerful” and “potent” and are intended to be introduced to the body to get the body to do what it should do naturally.

Now I’m not advocating an across-the-board no drugs or no medicine policy. Indeed I have been known to take an aspirin now and again. But I feel that we should be moving toward a policy of active self-healing and not passive self-healing.

My point here is that it still seems rather passive to me. Let me try to illustrate. These people would go to the doctor and take their medicine – their magic bullet – to cause the body to do something natural. A more active approach, to me, would consist of the patient learning to tune in and control their body to enhance its ability to repair itself – to cause the increase of stem cells but without the need for these “powerful” and “potent” drugs.

Over years countless studies under tight and rigorous scientific protocols have shown that people who meditate or practise such visualisation techniques as the Silva Method can control their bodies – in profound ways that would seem impossible. This control ranges from slowing the heart rate, lowering blood pressure and slowing circulation to healing such serious conditions such as cancer and degenerative diseases.

Sure, I believe that there would be a role for this pill to trigger the stem cells. If, for example, the patient were unconscious or otherwise not in a position or state from which to learn visualisation, then by all means let’s get the prescription pad out.

But in other cases, let’s go all the way and simply learn to get out the way enough to let our bodies do what our bodies were designed to do.

Every day I work with people who are ready to take this kind of control not just over their bodies but over their lives. Through my Intuitive Life Coaching I provide one-on-one sessions to guide and inspire my clients to do it for themselves, whereas my Medical Intuitive Readings help identify the spiritual issues underlying illness. If you are ready to accept that challenge and behold the awesome potential of your own powerhouse, then let’s get started today!

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Until next week,

Kindest regards,

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